Tom Jardian

Thomas "Stinger" Jardian (20 June 1931-) was an Admiral of the US Navy during the Cold War. Leading the Indian Ocean squadron from USS Enterprise, Jardian was the commander of the fleet that succeeded in stopping a 1986 Soviet coup attempt.

Biography
Jardian was an Admiral of the US Navy whose flagship was USS Enterprise, and the commander of the US Indian Ocean Squadron in the 1980s. In May of 1986 he dispatched some of his jets to fly missions in the Indian Ocean to prevent the Soviet Navy Admiral Dmitri Devonovich from succeeding in his coup. His planes destroyed the Soviet navy and shot down their ace Ivan (along with several other planes), and the diplomats of the United States and Soviet Union agreed that the incident never happened.